Associate Professors--Bourgois, Oñate, Peard, Rivera
Assistant Professors--Baron, Carillo
The minor will be useful to students planning careers in education, the foreign service, international organizations, overseas corporations and banking, as well as for those who simply desire a better understanding of Latin America. The multidisciplinary nature of the program also prepares the student for further study in any number of academic fields at the graduate level.
The Latin American Area Studies Minor consists of a core curriculum of three courses which deal with the region as a whole from a variety of disciplinary perspectives plus fifteen or sixteen units of upper division courses taken from the following list, upon advisement.
Units
The Latin American Past 3
ANTH/HIST/LARA/SS 501 Latin America:
The National Period
HIST 510 Colonial Latin America
Modern Latin America(one of the following) 3-4
IBUS 591 Doing Business in Latin America
IR 322 Latin American Relations (4)
PLSI 403 Latin American Politics (4)
PLSI 409 Central American Politics (4)
SS/HIST 550 Social Change in Modern
Latin America
Cultures of Latin America--one of the following 3
LARA 450 Indigenismo: Indigenous Culture
and Personality
MUS 532 Music of Latin America
SPAN 405 Culture and Civilization of
Spanish America
Total for core 9-10
Select at least one course from each group, with
no more than nine units from one disci-
pline. Courses taken in the core may not be
used to meet this part of the requirement. 15-16
ANTH 471 The Ancient Maya
ANTH 475 Ancient South America
HIST 510 Colonial Latin America
HIST 520 Central America and the
Caribbean
HIST 524 History of Mexico
HIST 528 History of Brazil
HIST 535 History of Women in Latin
America
HIST 652 Proseminar in World History:
Reform and Revolution in
Latin America
LARA 460 Central Americans of the U.S.:
History and Heritage
ANTH 315 Regional Ethnography [Topic:
Peoples and Cultures of
Central America]
IBUS 591 Doing Business in Latin
America
IR 306 U.S.-Central American
Relations (4)
IR 322 Latin American Relations (4)
LARA 660 Contemporary Movements in
La Raza
PLSI 403 Latin American Politics (4)
PLSI 409 Central American Politics (4)
SS/HIST 550 Social Change in Modern
Latin America
ANTH 470 Archaeology of Mexico
ART 500 Prehistoric Art of Mexico
ART 503 Caribbean Art
HUM/LARA 520 North and South American
Cultural Expression
LARA 320 Art History of La Raza
LARA 410 La Raza Women
LARA 425 Comparative Music Folklore
LARA 450 Indigenismo: Indigenous Culture
and Personality
LARA 560 Contemporary Literature of
La Raza
LARA 570 Philosophy of La Raza
MUS 532 Music of Latin America
SPAN 405 Culture and Civilization of
Spanish America
SPAN 541 Spanish American Literature:
Discovery to Early Romanticism
[all topics]
SPAN 543 Spanish American Literature:
Romanticism to Modernism
[all topics]
SPAN 545 Twentieth Century Spanish
American Literature [all topics]
SPAN 595 Senior Survey in Spanish or
Spanish American Literature
[all Spanish American topics]
Total for electives 15-16
Total for minor 24-26